We’re probably not that far apart. I do think in the future that more people will be concerned at least with basic low level optimizations because some “next ge

We’re probably not that far apart. I do think in the future that more people will be concerned at least with basic low level optimizations because some “next gen” languages make it so much easier. Part of what makes it hard now is that C lacks many of the very useful abstractions and features that have matured over the last few decades.